Weddings are known for their traditions, but we live in a time when they should be known for the personalities of the people getting married. So when you’re planning your wedding, make it feel like it’s a party for you and your fiancé, and not something straight out of a bridal magazine. Here are ten ways to personalize your wedding.

1. Go Virtual With Invitations

Instead of mailing out paper ones that may give your guests paper cuts, decide to go virtual instead. You’ll have more room to be creative here: you can make the invitation into a quiz, a game, or even a fun infographic.

 

2. Replace the Bouquets

Skip out on holding flowers while you walk down the aisle and instead go for something with more personality and flair.

 

3. Pick a Different Kind of Venue

Forget having your wedding at a traditional restaurant or catering hall. Think outside of the box and hold it somewhere fun or meaningful: an old museum, a library, even a theme park.

 

4. Replace an Old Tradition With a New One

If wearing a veil or doing a first dance is something that makes your gut burn, don’t feel like you have to do that. Instead of a first dance, you can sing a song together or act out a skit – something that makes your wedding feel like you and your fiancé.

 

5. Shake Up Your First Dance

Nix the slow song and go for something you can bust out unexpected dance moves to instead.

 

6. Add Your Personality into the Party Favors

Send your guests off with something that screams YOU. Whether it’s a bag of your favorite coffee, candy, or even an item that will have them never forgetting about your wedding day.

 

7. Utilize Social Media

Create your own hashtags or photo sharing apps so that your guests can become engaged with your wedding and also serve as mini-photographers of your big day.

 

8. Create Your Own Ceremony

Instead of letting the person officiating the ceremony decide on what is read and said, come up with your own plan or work together with the officiant to make the ceremony fun and engaging.

 

9. Add a Theme to the Wedding

Whether it’s a TV, sports team, color, or even slogan that you and your fiancé love, you can use that theme to tie in the decorations and the mood of your wedding.

 

10. Write Your Own Vows

Right before you say I Do, each of you can read hand-written vows to each other. This always makes the wedding have more personality and feel like extra special.